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Monetary Policy and the Distribution of Income: Evidence for the United States and theUnited Kingdom
(Taylor & Francis, Ltd., 2001)Looks at the issues surrounding the effects of monetary policy on changes in the income shares of industrial capital, financial capital and labor in the United States and Great Britain. Development of a post-Keynesian--Kaleckian ... -
Principles of corporate governance in Greece
(Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2001-04)This article presents the reasons which led the business community in Greece to reconsider existing corporate governance practices of listed corporations in the Athens Stock Exchange, outlines the general rationale for the ... -
Directors’ Share Dealings and Company Financial Performance
(Springer, 2002)This paper examines the response of security prices to the share dealings by directors of small capitalised firms in the United Kingdom and tests as to whether the share dealings contain information with regard to the ... -
The Efficiency of Capital Market Microstructure in Greece
(Springer, Boston, MA, 2002)The auction principles, clearance, settlement, and depository facilities of the Greek stock market are described. An autoregressive model is found to characterize the time series properties of stock returns and volatility ... -
On The Efficiency Of The Capital Market In Greece: Price Discovery And Causality In The Athens Stock Exchange And The Athens Derivatives Exchange
(World Scientific, 2004)The chapter examines the interactions, using high frequency data, between the price series of the share price index of futures contracts traded on the Athens Derivatives Exchange and the underlying spot asset - the FTSE/ASE-20 ... -
Strategic behavior and national culture: the case of the banking industry in jordan
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2005)This paper examined the relationships between national culture and strategic behavior in the banking industry in Jordan and U.S. The study first developed a strategic posture and secondly a cultural profile for the top ... -
Strategic behavior and national culture: the case of the banking industry in jordan
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2005)This paper examined the relationships between national culture and strategic behavior in the banking industry in Jordan and U.S. The study first developed a strategic posture and secondly a cultural profile for the top ... -
Structural Changes in the Middle East Stock Markets: The Case of Israel and Arab Countries
(University of Wollongong, 2005-09)This paper tests for structural changes in the price indices of four stock markets in the Middle East region, namely, Egypt, Turkey Jordan, Morocco and Israel. The Innovational Outlier (IO) model and Additive Outlier ... -
Financial integration of the MENA emerging stock markets
(University of Wollongong, 2006)The main objective of this study is to examine the financial integration among four emerging stock markets in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, namely, Egypt, Turkey, Jordan and Morocco. Their interrelationships ... -
A service-oriented architecture for financial business processes
(Springer, 2006-10-05)Recent years have witnessed a tremendous growth in information and communication technologies that facilitate the design and implementation of complex inter-enterprise business processes. One of the major innovations is ... -
Price Limit and Volatility in Taiwan Stock Exchange: Some Additional Evidence from the Extreme Value Approach
(Social Science Research Network, 2007-05-17)We reexamine the effects of price limits on stock volatility of Taiwan Stock Exchange using a new methodology based on the Extreme-Value technique. Consistent with the advocates of price limits, we find that stock market ... -
Are co‐integrated stock prices consistent with the efficient market hypothesis?
(Blackwell Publishing Asia, 2007-09)This paper responds to the unsatisfactory argument that there is no correspondence between co-integration and the efficient market hypothesis. A law of one co-integrating vector of prices is proposed for the exchange rate ... -
Can Trend Followers Survive in the Long-Run% Insights from Agent-Based Modeling
(Springer, 2008)his chapter uses a simple stochastic market fraction (MF) asset pricing model to investigate market dominance, profitability, and how traders adopting fundamental analysis or trend following strategies can survive under ... -
Making development accountable A critical analysis of the systems of accounting and accountability for the Constituency Development Fund in Kenya
(Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2009)Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to describe and critically evaluate the systems of accounting and accountability for the Constituency Development Fund (CDF) in Kenya. It suggests a new framework of ... -
Empirical Analysis of Price Limit Hits of Tokyo Stock Exchange
(Social Science Research Network, 2009)The primary aim of this paper is to examine characteristics of stocks that hit the limits listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange. We analyse the characteristics of stocks that hit the limits more frequently, the characteristics ... -
Voluntary disclosure and stock market liquidity: evidence from the Jordanian capital market
(Social Science Research Network, 2009)The objectives of this study are to measure the level of voluntary disclosure provided in the annual reports of Jordanian companies and to examine the impact of disclosure level on the stock market liquidity using Jordanian ... -
Working capital management, operating cash flow and corporate performance
(SSRN, 2009)This paper investigates the relationship between working capital management, corporate performance and operating cash flow. The relationship is examined using dynamic panel data analysis. The analysis based on a sample of ... -
Working Capital Management and Firm's Profitability: An Optimal Cash Conversion Cycle
(SSRN, 2009)The traditional link between the cash conversion cycle and the firm's profitability is that shortening the cash conversion cycle increases firm's profitability. On the other hand shortening the cash conversion cycle could ... -
A note on working capital management and corporate profitability of Japanese firms
(SSRN, 2009-07)The primary aim of this paper is to investigate the relationship between working capital management and firm profitability. The analysis based on a sample of 2123 Japanese non-financial firms listed in the Tokyo Stock ... -
Effectiveness of Price Limit Hits of Japan
(SSRN, 2009-09)The primary aim of this paper is to examine effectiveness of price limits for companies listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Explanations are provided for the empirical findings and the extent to which the price limit hit ...